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Tue, 27 May 2025 Feature Article

Wake up from over slumbering mindset

Wake up from over slumbering mindset

Slumbering refers to a state of inactivity, complacency, or lack of awareness, where individuals or societies fail to take action toward progress. It can manifest in mental stagnation, leadership inefficiency, or resistance to change. External forces have historically influenced Africa’s development, often exploiting resources, shaping policies, and maintaining economic dependencies. A slumbering mindset—characterized by inaction, lack of innovation, and weak leadership—has allowed these external agendas to persist without challenge. Key external forces affecting African development include.

  1. Economic Dependency – Reliance on foreign aid and loans keeps nations trapped in cycles of debt.
  2. Resource Exploitation – External entities benefit from Africa’s wealth while local economies remain underdeveloped.
  3. Political Influence – Foreign interests often shape policies that serve external agendas rather than African prosperity.
  4. Technological Lag – Limited investment in local innovation and education weakens competitive growth.
  5. Divisive Narratives – External forces fuel internal conflicts, corruption, and instability, preventing unity and sustainable progress.

Prevailing Effects of a Slumbering Mindset

  1. Lack of Innovation – Resistance to new ideas hinders creativity and problem-solving.
  2. Missed Opportunities – Failure to act leads to lost chances for growth and development.
  3. Poor Decision-Making – Limited awareness results in short-sighted or ineffective leadership.
  4. Declining Productivity – Inaction causes low motivation and reduced efficiency.
  5. Social & Economic Stagnation – Societies that resist change struggle with poverty and underdevelopment.
  6. Mental & Emotional Struggles – A passive mindset increases stress, anxiety, and dissatisfaction2.
  7. Weak Leadership – Leaders who fail to adapt lose credibility and influence.

Waking Up From Oversleeping
Breaking free from slumbering tendencies requires awareness, proactive thinking, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Below is the hidden agenda of the imperialists who always try to have dominion over Africa.

  1. Divide them. Control their unity. Get them disunited to control their peace and security. Make sure Africans do not unite. People, nations and continents get power when united. This disunity can be possible when they begin to be divided by ignorance. Let them hate themselves through political divisions, tribal affiliates and strong hate for each other. For example, I am NPP, I am NDC. Get them tribalized. Leave them to hold on to their tribalism and have no respect for other tribes. When individuals prioritize their tribal affiliations over national interests, they diminish their commitment to their country’s development. You know why? Leadership selection will shift from merit-based criteria to tribal loyalty, leading to the appointment of unqualified individuals in crucial positions, ultimately hindering progress. Keep them too busy fighting each other. Keep their disputes always unresolved. Make sure if they take one step forward you force them to take two steps back. Keep their leaders to have interest in serving their foreign masters, but not their people or nation.
  2. Find the most corrupt and most easily manipulated to cleave power than progress and support them win elections. If a leader rises to develop Africa, get rid of them. If a leader rises to unite Africa assassinate them before the idea spreads. Use poor economic indicators to praise their mismanagement. Praise them naively and they will be happy to receive appraisal from a foreign institution.
  3. Keep Africa economically weak. Unable them to print their own money. Keep them exporting their raw materials without any industrialization. If any country or leader tries to industrialize get rid of them. Control their mines, oil fields, all their minerals and keep them sell their raw materials so cheap and buy them expensive. If a country tries to break free and build industries, sabotage it. Place sanctions to destabilize their economy. Use the local opposition force to fight them. If it doesn’t work orchestrate civil war. People can’t build when they are busy trying to survive. Keep their education system to produce workers not innovators, not great thinkers nor inventors.
  4. Make them think their cultures are primitive, their ancestors were savages, and their future depends on the foreign approval. Lead their best brains seek opportunities overseas and make sure they do not return. Make their best dream to escape Africa than to stay and fix it. Make them believe that they are useless, corrupt, hopeless and their condition can only be better by foreign body. Put them into poverty forever. Show them charity and make them believe that they are hopeless without foreign aid.
  5. Downplay their successes. If African develop something, credit it to foreign investor. If African implements successful policies, play it as anomalies. Discredit their good policies as threats to peace, democracy, human rights and security. Keep them fearful so that they remain cowed and silent forever. Make them remain dependent on debts. Offer them loans with impossible conditions to pay back. Force them to privatize everything so that private foreign corporations can control their water, land and electricity. When they are struggling, give them just aid to keep them alive, but never enough. Use charity to create a culture of alliance. From time to time, donate some aids to them and that will blind their intelligence.
  6. Make them think foreign interventions are necessary. And that they can’t solve their own problems. Suppress their military strength. Weaken their defense. Sell them weapons to fight each other but never let them develop high technology military devices. If a country tries to build a strong defense system, accuse them as a threat to peace and stability. Make sure they always need foreign military bases, foreign aids and foreign defense to weaken their defense and keep them vulnerable.
  7. Keep them always poor and busy looking outside for solutions. The poorer they remain the better we get rich over their ignorance. This will make every parent look for opportunities abroad for their children. Keep them anxious to always wait for solutions from the foreign powers. Africans were waiting for Covid-solution when other nations were finding solution themselves. Keep them poor, dependent, insecure, always waiting for the West as much as possible and make every attempt to break free become impossible so that the next generation will think twice before trying again.
  8. Apply separatist movement. This is a political or social movement that seeks to separate a group, region, or territory from a larger governing body to form an independent state or gain greater autonomy. Separatist movements can be driven by ethnic, cultural, religious, economic, or political affiliations or funs. It is caused by strong desire for ethnic or cultural identity over nationalism. This movement makes a group feel their identity is suppressed within a larger nation. The fight is based on.

Solution to Africans Suppressions.

  1. Be prepared, not unprepared to act or take action now. Be fearless, not fearful to know what you ought to do now. Think, sense, reason and have vision to break the chains from the West and free your people. Have intimate alliance with China, Russia, Iran, Turkey and North Korea. Be bold, strategic and visionary.
  2. Be united in power, ideas, economically, defense and national development, but not for personal or party development. Heal the madness of corruption, sickness of ignorance and misleading ideas. Appoint leaders by their acquired knowledge and experience or expertise but not by family or political party affiliate. Africa, wake up.
  3. Change your thinking of old attributes to better ways of doing things. Be positive, not negative to know that development depends on you and begins with you. Organize yourselves and have your own power to print your own money.
  4. Focus on research and industrialization. Research into greater and faster ways to change things by creating realities of development.
  5. Every thought or move should be to bring a positive change to make life better. Avoid self and greediness. Do not complain and never stand to blame but stand to develop. Refine your raw materials and turn them into finished products. Focus on inter African trade meaning producing to feed Africa and Africans.
  6. Africa should focus on mass production and preservation of everything that the people need, will need and will want.
  7. Some of the minor traits preventing development such as desire to be rich the next day, arrogance in power for power, self-aggrandizement and mental laziness should be identified and discarded. Social, nationalistic and economic values should be inculcated and embraced in educational training. Religion has no negative impacts on development.

Being a Model of Unity As African Like Ibrahim Traore.

To do your best as a competent leader, age does not matter. Wake up and fight for your rights of sovereignty and economic independence. There are lies about Africa by the imperialists. Awaken the consciousness of all Africans especially the youth. Develop your own army. It takes time but patience is not a disease. Sovereignty depends on the army. Avoid being manipulated by any nonblack nation. Redefine democracy, independence, human rights, foreign aid, foreign loans and national sovereignty by the African understanding. Wake up Africa!

Gaddiel R. Ackah is an esteemed educationalist, United States Navy veteran, prolific author, speaker and unifier. He is the president and founder of Gramep LLC in Fairfield, Ohio, and an operations specialist at Globe Transportation Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. Previously, he served as an HR advisor and safety training officer at Bankytee Logistics in Hamilton, Ohio.

His leadership extends to roles at the Navy Operational Support Center in Cincinnati and training in cybersecurity, equal opportunity, counterinsurgency, career counseling, counterintelligence, antiterrorism and strategic combat.

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Gaddiel R. Ackah is a distinguished social advocate and thought leader whose work champions economic independence and ethical leadership.. More With a background that spans education, business, military service, creative arts, and governance, he brings a multifaceted perspective to transformative change. His commitment to empowering individuals and communities has made him a powerful voice in both national and global development conversations.

As the author of numerous inspirational and leadership-focused books, Gaddiel shares timeless principles for personal growth, civic responsibility, and spiritual resilience. His publications include:

1. Competent Leadership
2. Becoming Successful
3. Our Happiness
4. Some Choices Matter
5. Respect Matters
6. Faith Wipes Tears
7. The Power of Faith

With every word and initiative, Gaddiel Ackah continues to challenge conventions, shape character, and inspire a new generation of leaders.
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